The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0747577730 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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'A haunting book brilliant' Financial Mail 'It is worthy to stand with the best of air-war memoirs. I've never read a book that was anything like it' Samuel Hynes 'As poignant a piece of aviation literature as I have ever read' Sunday Correspondent 'The best airmen are mostly simple people but occasionally there arises one, a poet, a philosopher, who succeeds in lending coherent reason to their love every airman of our age will feel Jim Bailey has given wings to his inmost thoughts' Group Captain Peter Townsend
In 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. It describes the youthful heroism of his companions, and he captures the atmosphere of everyday life on the ground in wartime Britain, as well as the air battles.. What happened over the next five years to Jim and the men he met, the men who fought, died, and survived, is related with candor and quiet modesty in this book
Midwest Book Review said The true life story of heroism, survival against the odds, and a remembering of so many that did not make it through. The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story is the remarkable and memorable autobiography of Jim Bailey, who in the summer of 19The true life story of heroism, survival against the odds, and a remembering of so many that did not make it through The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story is the remarkable and memorable autobiography of Jim Bailey, who in the summer of 1939 while a 19-year old student at Oxford University felt strongly that war between England and Germany was inevitable. That was when he signed up to become a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force. Baily flew British fighter planes in aerial combat missions that ranged from the Battle of Britain, through the action at Gibraltar, and the Anzio beach-heads, to the landing in the South of Fra. 9 while a 19-year old student at Oxford University felt strongly that war between England and Germany was inevitable. That was when he signed up to become a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force. Baily flew British fighter planes in aerial combat missions that ranged from the Battle of Britain, through the action at Gibraltar, and the Anzio beach-heads, to the landing in the South of Fra. Who knows? I want only to make the point that of the two reviews posted for this book, one is completely phony. I was interested in buying this book and noted that of the two reviews, one was 5-stars and the other 1-star with scathing comments. So I checked out the 5-star "Midwest Book Review" author. I went through more than 300 pages of his reviews (with at least 10 books per page) and discovered that he rates EVERYTHING 5-stars. He might have tens of thousands of reviews; I stopped looking after 310 pages of reviews. It. K. DELANO said OK READ. Its an Ok book about a Beaufighter and Defiant pilot during WW"OK READ" according to K. DELANO. Its an Ok book about a Beaufighter and Defiant pilot during WW2. Not the best read on the subject but entertaining.. . Not the best read on the subject but entertaining.
. Jim Bailey flew fighters throughout World War II, from the Battle of Britain through Gibraltar and the Anzio beach-head to the landing in the south of France. During his lifetime, Jim Bailey also published a collection of poetry and works of anthropology